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When Jerry Sloan was asked about Milwaukee’s Charlie Villanueva getting scolded by coach Scott Skiles for using Twitter during halftime, the 66-year-old Jazz coach first had to be told what it was before realizing what had been done wrong.
“I don’t follow that,” Sloan said. “I don’t even have a computer. I don’t know how to turn one on. I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m going to be totally honest. How would you do that?”
Told it could be done with a mobile phone, Sloan, who was raised in a tiny, remote Illinois town, got even more confused.
“I have a phone,” he said, “but I don’t know how to use it that way. . . . See, I grew up without a telephone until I was a junior in high school. And I’ve always been intimidated by that stuff.”